Now you know: Geo-pref's on application DO matter - Page 3

pm577 · August 22nd, 2008, 23:38

ahh, I'm sorry buddy

BoomerSooner77 · August 22nd, 2008, 23:43

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ahh, I'm sorry buddy

Why do those look like Mountain Oysters / Calf Fries?

pm577 · August 22nd, 2008, 23:48

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Originally Posted by BoomerSooner77

Why do those look like Mountain Oysters / Calf Fries?

I didn't even know what those are... until i went on wikipedia (who's the weird one now!?)

BoomerSooner77 · August 23rd, 2008, 00:02

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Originally Posted by pm577

I didn't even know what those are... until i went on wikipedia (who's the weird one now!?)

Welcome to Texas!

Wyopoke79 · August 23rd, 2008, 00:08

really uncalled for..

BoomerSooner77 · August 23rd, 2008, 00:09

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really uncalled for..

My apologies Debbie Downer.

pm577 · August 23rd, 2008, 00:32

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Originally Posted by Wyopoke79

really uncalled for..

you remind me of... what's his name!?

Wyopoke79 · August 23rd, 2008, 00:45

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Originally Posted by pm577

you remind me of... what's his name!?

satan? Yeah...he went to my University..

Rosstafari · August 28th, 2008, 02:01

Chiming in sort of late on this one, but here's another reason to follow the directions:

While filling out my first app, PUBNAT3, I did just this -- selected a bunch of different places I wanted to go to, and then put "Across the nation" for the last one. After going through about half of the application, I saved and quit, as I needed to go somewhere.

When I came back, I had the hardest time getting ASAP to open up my application to finish it. I could log in just fine, and look at other parts, but when I went to edit the application, the browser would hang for the lonnnnngest time -- I'd usually get logged out for inactivity by ASAP. Couldn't figure out what was going on.

After several calls to both the Careers line and ASAP tech support, we figured out that putting in preferences when the system wasn't expecting it was actually causing it to flip out. I don't understand why it was happening in a technical sense, but OKC told me that I'd need to keep trying to get it to pull everything up, and then remove each location, one at a time, until I only had the first one. They also gave me a hard time about having done that in the first place, because "the instructions tell you to just put 'Across the country'. You get to make your geographical preference choices later."

Oops.

So, moral of the story: Stick with what it tells you to do. We've seen in other threads how minor errors can cause the computer to trash a perfectly good application - so I wouldn't risk it. The rationale here is good, but the timing's off. Save a preference for North Dakota until after the AT-SAT.

August 23rd, 2008, 00:08	#55
Wyopoke79 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Blaaaaah...... Posts: 433	Re: Now you know: Geo-pref's on application DO matter really uncalled for.. __________________ Pub 2 PEPC Done. Next Step Oklahoma City!!!

August 28th, 2008, 02:01	#59
Rosstafari Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Austin, Republic of Texas Posts: 165	Re: Now you know: Geo-pref's on application DO matter Chiming in sort of late on this one, but here's another reason to follow the directions: While filling out my first app, PUBNAT3, I did just this -- selected a bunch of different places I wanted to go to, and then put "Across the nation" for the last one. After going through about half of the application, I saved and quit, as I needed to go somewhere. When I came back, I had the hardest time getting ASAP to open up my application to finish it. I could log in just fine, and look at other parts, but when I went to edit the application, the browser would hang for the lonnnnngest time -- I'd usually get logged out for inactivity by ASAP. Couldn't figure out what was going on. After several calls to both the Careers line and ASAP tech support, we figured out that putting in preferences when the system wasn't expecting it was actually causing it to flip out. I don't understand why it was happening in a technical sense, but OKC told me that I'd need to keep trying to get it to pull everything up, and then remove each location, one at a time, until I only had the first one. They also gave me a hard time about having done that in the first place, because "the instructions tell you to just put 'Across the country'. You get to make your geographical preference choices later." Oops. So, moral of the story: Stick with what it tells you to do. We've seen in other threads how minor errors can cause the computer to trash a perfectly good application - so I wouldn't risk it. The rationale here is good, but the timing's off. Save a preference for North Dakota until after the AT-SAT. __________________ Applied PUBNAT3/4/5/6 - May 31, et al. AT-SAT - Aug. 14 Geo Prefs (Seattle / Throughout the Nation) - Nov. 20

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